Internships and Jobs

News, Awards, Internships, and Jobs

"GloJo" came together as a Journalism field of study in 2007, meaning our first graduates were the Class of 2009. Here's a year by year report on what some of our recent alumni and current students are doing. You can get a good real time sense of the plentiful publishing of our current students and alumni on GloJo's Facebook page.

2015

Katie Whittaker (GloJo-International Relations 2016), in Greece all summer reporting for her thesis, has been helping out at the Reuters bureau doing fiscal crisis reaction.

Dana Varinsky (GloJo-International Relations 2013) just checked in to report that she's at Time Out NY, where she manages the front section of the magazine and the blog.

The Latin American Studies Association honored Roque Planas (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2011) at its international congress in Puerto Rico for his reporting on Latin America and Hispanic politics, highlighting his work on the Central American migration crisis as one of the "few critical voices" challenging both the Obama administration and GOP talking points while contextualizing the U.S. role in causing the crisis.

Avi Asher-Schapiro (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) is in a staff writer position at Vice, where he has freelanced often. He started at the end of June.

Thibault Chareton (GloJo-French Studies 2009) has moved on from the French-American Foundation, where he had been since graduation, to the UN Alliance of Civilizations where he has taken on the organization's Media and Migration portfolio along with new initiatives. So far he has focused his research on hate speech and the use of technology in migration reporting.

Mel Bailey (GloJo-Africana Studies 2014) is a digital specialist on the Africa54 team for VOA, based in Dakar, Senegal.

Stephanie Butnick (GloJo-Religious Studies 2011) has been promoted to deputy editor of Tablet magazine, where she was worked in a variety of editorial positions since graduation, most recently as senior editor, responsible for its new blog, "The Scroll."

Thalia Beaty (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) and Maggy Donaldson (GloJo-French Studies 2015) traveled to Morocco in March with the Bureau of International Reporting to report for several outlets.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European/Medterranean Studies 2015) and Danielle Mackey (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2015) traveled to Brussels at the end of March on a European Union study trip.

Christoher Looft (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016) is interning this spring at New York Magazine.

Stephanie Butnick (GloJo-Religious Studies 2011), who has been climbing up the ranks of Tablet since graduation, has been promoted to the position of senior editor, responsible for the onine magazine's new blog, "The Scroll."

Avi Asher-Schapiro (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) has accepted a spring internship with The Nation, where Dusty Christiansen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2016) interned in Spring 2014--just before his admission to GloJo--and Molly O'Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011), now a correspondent for Atlantic.com's DefenseOne, interned as a student in the Spring of 2011.

Yasmine Al-Sayyad (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) spent the summer and fall of 2014 as a junior research with the UNDP, the UN Development Program.

Bailey Wolff (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2016) is following the lead of Lynn Edmondds (GloJo-Africana Studies 2015) this past semester and doing a spring internship at Psychology Today.

Abby Ohlheiser (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) after significant stints with Atlantic's The Wireand before that, Slate, joined the general assignment newsdesk of the Washington Post to "generate digital enterprise and provide coverage of ongoing stories."

Michael Lee (GloJo-East Asian Studies 2014) has taken a position in the gaming universe of Digital Trends.

Von Diaz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2012) was recently featured in Newsweek, cooking her way through the classical Puerto Rican repertoire with health-conscious updates.

Makini Brice (GloJo-French Studies 2015) is reporting this spring as an intern at City Limits.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European Mediterranean Studies 2015), Mel Bailey (GloJo-French Studies 2014) and Makini Brice (GloJo-French Studies 2015) all went to Senegal to report over spring break with the Bureau for International Reporting, led by Prof. Jason Maloney, and this is the segment they produced for PBS News Hour on the children obliged to beg all day as a traditionally accepted part of their Koranic study. It aired 2 May 2014.

Von Diaz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2012) has been hired as a production assistant at Storycorps.

Samantha Balaban (GLoJo-Latin American Studies 2014) has been hired as a production assistant at NPR's Morning Edition.

Michael Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009), for the second year running, has won the Sigma Delta Chi awardfor his article for Miami New Times about a murderous male porn star. He is a senior reporter at the paper.

Lauren Morton (GloJo-Africana Studies 2014) is interning this spring at CNN's New York bureau.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European and Mediterranean Studies 2015), after a fall internship in her first semester with CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, is moving to a start-up this spring called storyhunter.tv, a company that seeks to distribute high-quality international reporting in video.

Samantha Balaban (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2013) follows up her internship last summer with WBUR covering the Whitey Bulger trial, to take a similar position with NPR in Washington, D.C. with "Morning Edition."

Thalia Beaty (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2015) will intern this spring at the New York public radio affiliate, WNYC.

2013

Natalie Rinn, (GloJo-French Studies 2012) has taken a full-time position with VHX.tv, a firm that creates software and websites for filmmakers that enables them to sell directly to their audiences. She'll be doing all the writing, social media and think pieces for the site.

Alison Bowen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2010), former senior features writer for Metro-US, is now a features editor at the Chicago Tribune.

Kavitha Surana (GloJo-European and Mediterranean Studies 2015) is interning with CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, keeping company with Dana Sherne (GloJo-International Relations 2012), who is on the staff as a full-time PA.

Suzanne Rozdeba (GloJo-Russian Slavic Studies 2012) is a news editor for the AOL/Huffington Post Media Group, working as a homepage editor for AOL.

Nieves Zuberbuhler (GloJo-International Relations 2013) has been promoted from a position to CBS This Morning to be assistant to the executive editor of CBS Sixty Minutes.

Abby Ohlheiser (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) is now a full-time staff writer at The Atlantic.

Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009 ) has won a Silver Baton DuPont award for her reporting from Syria.

Samantha Balaban (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2013) has a summer position at WBUR in Boston, starting soon.

Michael E. Miller (GloJo-LatAM 2009), in his second Florida award of 2013, has been named "Journalist of the Year" in the Sunshine State Awards competiton of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Matthieu Aikins (GloJo-finished Near Eastern Studies 2011) is 2013 a Livingston Awards finalist in the international reporting category.

Clint Rainey (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) has taken a job as assistant editor at New York Magazine.

Michael E. Miller (GloJo-LatAM 2009) has won a major award from the Society of Professional Journalists for his story on one of the bloodiest operations ever by Miami-Dada police. SPJ http://www.spjvideo.org/sdx/sdx12/deadline-reporting-nd.pdf

Mari Hayman (GloJo-LatAm 2010) is associate editor of Americas Quarterly, where she also writes.

Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) was promoted from associate editor to the new World Editor of the Huffington Post.

Shirin Barghi (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012) reports that she has been interning for the past six months at the Huffington Post along side recent alumni and permanent staffers Eline Gordts (Near Eastern Studies), Roque Planas (Latin American Studies) and Molly O'Toole (International Relations). She also writes regularly for The Guardian and has a bylined chapter in a recently published book, Beyond Zuccotti Park, in which she compares and contrasts Occupy Wall Street with the Iran's popular uprising.

C.C. Glenn(GloJo-French Studies 2011), has put her deep interest in food to work as Raleigh Metro Magazine's goumet columnist.

Hania Mourtada's (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2012) byline is appearing regularly in the New York Times with a Beirut dateline.

Katie Cella (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2013) has been invited to spend a week at the European Union in Brussels, learning about EU foreign policy vis a vis the Middle East and to gain a better understanding of the EU's role in the region.

Dana Varinsky and Sasha von Oldershausen took internships this fall at the NYTimes.com Local East Village and reported hard on the aftermath of Megastorm Sandy, among other news.

Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) has received a Special Recognition Rpeorting Award from the Anna Lindh Foundation for her reporting on Syria and will accept the award Oct. 18 in Berlin.

Stephanie Butnick (GloJo-Religious Studies 2011) has gone from intern to editorial assistant to editor ofJewcy.com to full-time staff writer, all for Tablet magazine.

Ian Duncan (GloJo-International Relations 2012), following his summer stint as a Washington-based reporter for theLos Angeles Times, has taken a full-time reporting position at the Baltimore Sun. (And, July 19, he got married.)

Summer Class of 2013 Thesis Reporting Roundup: Nieves Zuberbuhler (GloJo-Latin American Studies) is in interviewing sources in Argentina, where she has been all summer; Katie Cella (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies), preceded her internship at Foreign Policy with a month in the UAE, interviewing for her thesis; Dana Varinsky (GloJo-International Relations) is working sources in Panama City; Sasha von Oldershausen (Glojo-Near Eastern Studies) heads to Iran at the end of her internship with Huffington Post - World; and Jared Malsin (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies) worked an intensive course in Arabic into his summer reporting foray to Cairo, where he has been since May. Fatima Malik (GloJo-NearEastern Studies) is scouring rural Sindh in Pakistan and meeting in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad with sources.

Shamira Muhammad (GloJo-Africana Studies 2011) has moved to France24 in Paris, where she is a freelance assistant producer and researcher.

Suzanne Rozdeba (GloJo-Russian/Slavic Studies 2012) was a production assistant - with credit line - on Prof. Jason Maloney's recent documentary on Cambodia for PBS.

Ian Duncan (GloJo-International Relations 2012) has been placed at the Los Angeles Times for his Washington Center for Politics & Journalism fellowship, where he is publishing regularly.

Sasha von Oldershausen (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2013) has accepted an internship position on the World Desk at the Huffington Post, starting April 1, where Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) is associate World Editor.

Natalie Rinn (GloJo-French Studies 2012) will be visitng the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels at the invitation of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States.

Von Diaz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2012) is working as blog editor and manager of Guantanamo Memory Project, which sseeks to build public awareness of the long history of the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo, Bay, Cuba, and foster dialogue on its future and the policies it shapes. She designed, launched and writes and edits for the site.

Adriana Loeff (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) moved from magazine editing to become a news producer at Uraguay National Television. She still makes documentaries, too.

Jelena Kopanja (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is the Vienna-based editor of The Croatian Times.

Laura Rivera (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) has started law school at Emory University.

Molly O'Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011) completed a summer position as a Washington D.C.-based reporter at Reuters and has taken a job in New York as a news desk editor at The Huffington Post.

Ian Duncan (GloJo-International Relations 2012) and Clint Rainey (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) both are interning this fall at The New Yorker. Ian has been awarded a scholarlship from the Hugh Fulton Byas Memorial fund, named for a British New York Times journalist who, like Ian, also spent time in Japan.

The Summer 2011 Thesis Reporting Roundup: The GloJo class of 2012 is far-flung this summer, reporting on the thesis topics they finalized this past spring for the long-form work they will produce -- under the guidance of faculty advisers from both disciplines -- in time for graduation in May 2012. These reports in so far: Merel van Beeren (GloJo-Near East 2012) is in Turkey; Ian Duncan (GloJo-IR 2012), whose project is domestic, is one of six New York Times-NYU interns at The Local East Village; Suzanne Rozdeba (GloJo-Russian Slavic Studies 2012) has been reporting (and blogging) from all over Poland; Abby Ohlheiser (GloJo-Religious Studies 2012) posted from Dearborn, Michigan, to The Revealer, where she writes regularly; Jessica Eise is posting from Nicaragua and Dana Sherne is blogging from Accra and also writing for the Accra newspaper, The Daily Graphic.

Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) has been named Associate World Editor of The Huffington Post.

Stephen Rex Brown (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008), who has specialized in local community news since graduation, started in May as the first senior correspondent of New York Times-NYU The Local East Village.

Eline Gordts (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2011) moves from a fall internship at Guernica to a job at the publication as editorial assistant.

Stephen Brown(GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009), after a year at the Brooklyn Paper, honored by his former colleagues with this video tribute, has become the inaugural AOL Patch editor for Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Von Diaz (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2012) has a paid fellowship to report for four months on LGBT immigration issues forFeet in Two Worlds.

Andrew Hansen (GloJo-French Studies 2008) has special responsibility for the Near East, North Africa and Latin America as an editor at Roubini Global Economics.

Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) is a based in Beirut as a research associate in the Middle East and North Africa program of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Clementine Gallot (GloJo-French Studies 2008) is the film and web editor of Trois Couleurs, a small Paris-based culture magazine.

Alison Bowen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2010) has accepted a full-time general assignment reporting position with Metro NY.

Michael E. Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is a full-time reporter for The Miami New Times.

Thibault Chareton (GloJo-French Studies 2009) remains in New York at the French-American Foundation, where he is working on a major program about immigration and internal media and writes the foundation's weekly news report. He recently organized a conference on the subject in Miami.

Molly O'Toole (GloJo-International Relations 2011) had a summer internship at the Associated Press bureau in Mexico City after a spring internship with Newsweek International.

Rima Marrouch (GloJo-Near Eastern Studies 2009) is an assistant reporter in the United Nations bureau of the London-based Al Hayat newspaper, writing in Arabic.

Alison Bowen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2010) completed a City Room internship at The New York Times.

Adriana Leoff (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) is Editor in Chief at Búsqueda Weekly in Montevideo Uruguay.

2009

Jeremy Tanner (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) has a news position at WPIX-TV.

Andrew Hansen (GloJo-French Studies 2008) is an editor at rgemonitor.com.

Alison Bowen (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2010) interned in the summer of 2009 for The New York Times for the Brooklyn edition of The Local in Fort Greene.

Lance Steagall (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) was promoted to assistant online editor of The Americas. He continues to consult for Hearst on search engine optimization. The blog he started with a group of friends in 2005, The Seminal, is to become part of Fire Dog Lake. The week of June 22, 2009 he will be presenting a conference paper in Havana on the sustainable agricultural practices Cuba developed following the fall of the Soviet Union. The conference is organized through the Research Network in Cuba.

Michael Miller (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2009) won the 2009 Stan Swinton Scholarship of the Overseas Press Club Foundation. As part of his award, the Associated Press posts him in Mexico City in the summer of 2009.

Gabriela Reardon's (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2007) takeout for City Limits, based on her master's project on asylum prospects for Latin American gang members won the 2007 PASS award in the Web category. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency sponsors the award.

Amy Van Vechten (GloJo-French Studies 2008) is currently a multimedia producer for FLYP magazine. In the summer of 2007, she reported for LiveWire from the European Union in Brussels for six weeks and produced a piece that appeared in Abroad View. On her return from reporting her master’s project in Brussels and Paris, she and fellow NYU graduate students Nadia Taha, Joy Keh, Michael Rundle and Clare Trapasso placed second in the NLGJA (National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association) Excellence in Student Journalism Award for their multimedia project and Amy was one of four students selected and sponsored to attend the program in San Diego. In the fall of 2007, she interned for the ABC News long-form unit.

Clementine Gallot (GloJo-French Studies 2008) interned in the summer of 2007 at The New York Times Paris bureau and in the 2007-8 school year at New York 1.

Arcynta L. Ali Childs (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) was chosen to participate in the New York Times Student Journalism Institute for members of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). This was only the second year of the NAHJ program, and the second time an NYU Journalism graduate student has won one of the 20 spots.

Carolyn Kormann (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2008) won a Middlebury College Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, which included $10,000. She worked with Bill McKibben (the New Yorker, National Geographic, Harper's, etc.) among others, and the program is helping with publication of her master's project.

Laura Rivera (GloJo-Latin American Studies 2007) reported from Miami for The New York Times during her Institute fellowship and wrote "An Experiment and a Protest in Shantytown for Homeless." From New York, she published repeatedly during the internship that followed. She then moved on to Newsday.